Top Stories of the Day // September 26, 2013

	Don't miss the latest news on fundings and acquisitions from CrunchBase. Sign up today and get CrunchBase Daily delivered to your inbox tomorrow! Today's Top Stories // Sep 26, 2013 Leena Rao EBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash Ebay's PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree, in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on... read more Darrell Etherington Google Hangouts And Google Talk Bug Resulting In Messages Going Out To The Wrong Recipients A number of sources, including tipsters reporting directly to TechCrunch, as well as Google support forum posters and individuals on Twitter are reporting that... read more Natasha Lomas Charge It With Fire! FlameStower Turns Your Campfire Into A USB Phone-Charger Charge your gadgets with fire! FlameStower, a startup that came out of Stanford's StartX Summer 2013 class, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to... read more Josh Constine Amazon Faces High-Stakes Challenge In Scaling Mayday On-Demand Support What happens when it's easier to call tech support than to Google your problem? Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much... read more Matt Burns Nest Labs To Open Up Its Learning Thermostat To Developers The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's... read more Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm Elop Conspiracy? Not So Much If you read the news yesterday, you might have run into a few articles discussing the exit of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, the terms of his exit, the cost of... read more Ingrid Lunden Siri Ex-Product Lead Who Quietly Sold His Startup's Assets To Apple Raises $1M For Unsilo, A Semantic Search Engine Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A... read more TOP VIDEOS JumpCam, Backed With $2.7M, Debuts Its Snappy Mobile App For Making Collaborative Videos If you've been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you've probably seen this kind... read more Amazon Introduces Mayday, A Unique And Amazingly Useful Live Tech Support System For Kindle Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced... read more Keen On… Uproot Wine: How One New York VC Is Tipsy On Californian Sauvignon Blanc One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 25, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 25, 2013 Matt Burns Of Course Samsung Is Now Making A Gold GS4 I'm going to try to write this without mentioning the gold iPhone 5s.... read more Gregory Ferenstein 15% Of Americans Don't Have Internet, 5% Think It's Irrelevant read more John Biggs Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors Amazon has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon... read more Darrell Etherington Amazon Continues To Quietly Build The Enterprise-Optimized Tablet With New Kindle HD And HDX Amazon's Kindle line of Android-powered tablets, which sport a modified version of Google's OS that the online book seller is developing on its own, is looking... read more Darrell Etherington Ahead Of Rumored Apple TV Refresh, Roku Updates Streaming Media Player Lineup And Launches Roku 3 In The UK Streaming media hardware company Roku, which is holding it own in a market that includes tech industry heavyweights including Apple and Google, has just... read more Darrell Etherington Cargo's Brewbot Makes You A Smartphone-Powered Craft Beer Microbrewery Starting At £1,500 read more Matt Burns Nest Labs' Next Product To Be A Smoke Detector, Per Reports The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a sibling. The Protect. If this report is correct, the company behind the incredibly popular Learning Thermostat is... read more TOP VIDEOS Amazon Introduces Mayday, A Unique And Amazingly Useful Live Tech Support System For Kindle Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced... read more Keen On… Uproot Wine: How One New York VC Is Tipsy On Californian Sauvignon Blanc One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments... read more Surface 2: Repeat Or Redemption? The inimitable Chris Velazco and I took to the TechCrunch TV screens to dig into the new Surface hardware that... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 24, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 24, 2013 Darrell Etherington Apple Updates iMac With New Intel Processors, Speedy 802.11ac Wi-Fi And Faster Flash Storage Apple has just released an updated version of its iMac all-in-one computer. The update is a minor one, unlike the considerable redesign it got at the end of... read more Chris Velazco Up Close And Personal With Microsoft's Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Now that the dust from Microsoft's Surface event has settled, we're left with two new tablets and one grand vision for the holidays -- with three Surfaces now... read more Darrell Etherington Apple TV 6.0 Update Returns With iTunes Match In Tow After Buggy First Version Pulled Apple has re-issued the 6.0 update for Apple TV devices it released last week, after the original version's many problems including slow downloads, library loss... read more Natasha Lomas Apple Swipe Keyboard Patent Shows Cupertino Knows Typing On iOS Is "Tedious" Apple's iPhone needs a much smarter keyboard. I've said it before, but here's evidence Cupertino itself realises that hen-pecking individual letters is a... read more Darrell Etherington Developer Finds It Takes Just Under 4K Downloads To Break Top 10 Paid iOS Apps, Over 7K To Rank Fifth And Up The App Store is somewhat shrouded in mystery, thanks a secret recipe that Apple uses to determine what apps shoot up the charts. Downloads play a big,... read more Jordan Crook Meet Studio, The App That Launched A Million Designers And Counting There's no doubt that photo-sharing is hot, but among the hundreds of services out there tackling the space, there hasn't been an app that has made a splash in... read more Mahesh Sharma Security Concerns Abound Over Unofficial Android iMessage App That Uses Chinese Servers To Process Data An unauthorised app that lets Android users chat on Apple's closed iMessage network is causing a big stir. It's had viral downloads in the tens of thousands... read more TOP VIDEOS Surface 2: Repeat Or Redemption? The inimitable Chris Velazco and I took to the TechCrunch TV screens to dig into the new Surface hardware that... read more Hands On With The Brooklyn-Made Makerbot Digitizer The Makerbot Digitizer looked too good to be true. It was a solid, compact 3D scanner that could replicate a solid... read more Fly Or Die: The UpDesk UpWrite The human body wasn't meant to sit. Chairs are an invention of our own laziness. That said, UpDesk is here to... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 23, 2013

	Disrupt Europe lands in Berlin October 28-29 with an outstanding speaker lineup. Today is the last day to get Early Bird tickets so go here to get yours today! Today's Top Stories // Sep 23, 2013 Darrell Etherington Apple's iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year read more Darrell Etherington FaceTime Audio Is Apple's Biggest Little Feature Addition In iOS 7 read more Darrell Etherington iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Already Make Up Nearly 1.5% Of Total U.S. iPhones Says Localytics, 5s Leads read more Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm Meet Microsoft's Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Today Microsoft took the wraps off its holiday hardware lineup, unveiling two new tablets, and a number of new and updated accessories. It's a lot of... read more Rip Empson Why Startups Fail: A Postmortem For Flud, The Social Newsreader read more Chris Velazco Vonkil's Batthead Is A Rechargeable, Remote Controlled AA Battery I spent my formative years using up AA batteries at a frenzied pace, and I can't count the number of times my parents said they wished could zap my trusty Game... read more Ingrid Lunden Retail Giant Tesco Follows In Amazon's Footsteps With Hudl, A Cut-Price, Own-Brand Android Tablet Tesco, the UK-based retail giant with 20 million customers in 12 countries across Europe and Asia, today took its biggest step yet into digital commerce and... read more TOP VIDEOS Hands On With The Brooklyn-Made Makerbot Digitizer The Makerbot Digitizer looked too good to be true. It was a solid, compact 3D scanner that could replicate a solid... read more Fly Or Die: The UpDesk UpWrite The human body wasn't meant to sit. Chairs are an invention of our own laziness. That said, UpDesk is here to... read more CrunchWeek: The iPhone 5s Cat Paw Test, Google's Calico And Bump's Exit It’s been a week chock-full of news in the tech world, so what better way to cap it off than by watching... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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